Posted on 01/19/2018 9:20:22 PM PST by nickcarraway
Animal rescuers were summoned to a Thailand fence where a massive monitor lizard attempted to squeeze between metal bars and found itself stuck.
A video recorded Monday in Chachoengsao shows the 5-foot lizard stuck around its middle between the metal bars of a fence that it apparently attempted to pass through while hunting near its pond.
The Chachoengsao Rescue Team was summoned to the scene and the video shows them using hydraulic pliers to separate the bars and free the chubby lizard.
The monitor, apparently uninjured, runs quickly into its pond after being freed.
The rescuers said they plan to leave the bars bent so the lizard can pass through without getting trapped.
Poor critter. Glad they saved it.
That must be what a victim of the Schumer Shutdown feels like.
Schumer Shutdown.
Okay, so a serious Sh1thole country, but glad to see they freed the lizard instead of eating it.
A Sh!thole is somewhere where basically no one wants to visit and people are struggling to get out, that is not the case here. One interesting thing that happens here is that illegals from Laos, Cambodia, Burma, and Vietnam will sneak into Thailand for the high pay.
That photos shows at least one part of the country that could use some cleaning up. HOWEVER, I think if it was a REAL s&*(hole country they would have just left the lizard to die, or whacked it’s head off. Good for them to go to all that effort to keep it living.
Although perhaps it is Thailand’s version of barn cats to keep the rodent population down?
Has the lil' feller gotten a "forever mom" yet? /s
Seriously: What's wrong with freeing the lizard - and then eating him? (Although I seem to recall that they are vile creatures and that their meat would be quite unpalatable.)
Regards,
Yeah, I had guinea pig in Peru years ago. Stringy, what I figure rat would be like. Not appetizing. Haven’t tried iguana yet, don’t suspect monitor would be appealing at all, especially considering the filthy environment it is living in. What a sh1thole. Poor lizard.
I don’t think a 5-foot Monitor lizard is a friendly-enough creature to have running around human habitat.
This same thing happened to a black snake snuck in my chain link fence once. It took a neighbor and me a few hours to rescue it, and it realized we were trying to help, didn’t fight us.
I agree. Great country to visit.
That being said a portion of the population does not hold those values and some make literal slaves out of the other country's illegals. In that vein human life is cheap, I know of a guy that killed a motorcyclist and got cleared by paying the family 400,000 baht (about $13K).
I look at Thailand as a lot how the USA was in the 50/60’s without a lot of GVT oversight.
The main park in Bangkok, Lumphini Park, was the site of a culling of the monitor lizards in the fall of 2016. Over a hundred were taken for ‘resettlement’ in another area. Judging from the number of lizards we encountered in Bangkok last summer, that city wouldn’t miss 100 lizards. Many people live on the banks of the canals in Bangkok. We took a boat ride on the canals and saw several lizards crawling on the rocks about 5 feet below the houses on the canals. Our tour guide said the lizards will bite babies if they get the chance. It was creepy.
When I lived in a dense city, one time a mouse found its way behind a wall in our dining room via heating pipes. I placed a trap through an opening in the wall.
One night I was sitting with the 7-year-old when the trap went off with a loud SNAP, but the mouse kept on screeching pitfully — caught, but not dead.
My child was horrified with pity. So I put a plastic grocery bag over my hand, reached in and picked up the mouse and the trap, which was attached to one of the mouse's ankles. I considered how to kill it, but my child was pleading, "Don't kill it!"
So I loop the grocery bag closed over the mouse'n'trap and carry them out to the street, four rowhouses down. I open the bag and release the trap from the mouse's leg. Hobbling on three legs, the mouse scurries directly into the alley behind the four houses towards our house, which is where the alley dead ends.
Sigh.
So I bought traps to catch the mice live, I would then release them in a field near our house. However, I would call my dogs over for the event, they would be jumping at the trap. Only 1 mouse ever got past them, the yellow lab especially enjoyed the opportunity.
You gotta talk to your relative about his weight problem.
I worked in Indonesia for a few months at a mine. When one of the workers was killed the mine paid the family something like $30,000 and that was it. (No fixing the problem, etc.)
That is something that I keep bumping into as a conservative - respecting the rights of the individual but also having a nation of rules that enforce and allow those rights.
Paying workers a low wage and working in poor conditions vs a minimum wage and excessive union demands. Or companies dumping toxic waste into the water and pollution into the air vs the ditch along the street considered a wetlands and CO2 as a contaminant.
One of my relatives has a law in his town that you can't kill squirrels that get in your attic or shed. So he sprays a stripe of fluorescent paint down their backs when he traps them and drives them miles away to a state nature preserve. This way he knows if individuals return.
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